THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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... vast army headed by this conqueror , whose unwieldy weight was almost alone fufficient to wear down its strength , it will be far from excefs to suppose that one half was lost in the expedition . If this was the state of the victorious ...
... vast army headed by this conqueror , whose unwieldy weight was almost alone fufficient to wear down its strength , it will be far from excefs to suppose that one half was lost in the expedition . If this was the state of the victorious ...
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... vast multitudes almost every year for several centuries ; and the irruptions of the kings of Babylon and Affyria made immenfe ravages . Yet we have their history but partially , in an indistinct confused manner ; so that I shall only ...
... vast multitudes almost every year for several centuries ; and the irruptions of the kings of Babylon and Affyria made immenfe ravages . Yet we have their history but partially , in an indistinct confused manner ; so that I shall only ...
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... vast spaces of the habitable globe it has not embraced , I need not mention to your Lordship . I need not en- large on those torrents of filent and inglorious blood which have glutted the thirsty fands of Africk , or difcoloured the ...
... vast spaces of the habitable globe it has not embraced , I need not mention to your Lordship . I need not en- large on those torrents of filent and inglorious blood which have glutted the thirsty fands of Africk , or difcoloured the ...
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... vast political machine . The other is of those who employ their riches wholly in the acquisition of pleafure . As to the first fort , their continual care , and anxiety , their toilsome days , and fleep- less nights , are next to ...
... vast political machine . The other is of those who employ their riches wholly in the acquisition of pleafure . As to the first fort , their continual care , and anxiety , their toilsome days , and fleep- less nights , are next to ...
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... vast extent on land , is certainly no mean idea ; the profpect of fuch a plain may be as ex- * Part IV . fect . 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 . tensive as a profpect of the ocean : but can. tenfive fore * Part I , sect . 7 . efforts 158 ON THE SUBLIME.
... vast extent on land , is certainly no mean idea ; the profpect of fuch a plain may be as ex- * Part IV . fect . 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 . tensive as a profpect of the ocean : but can. tenfive fore * Part I , sect . 7 . efforts 158 ON THE SUBLIME.
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